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TIL that when you become a citizen of Canada get a Cultural Access Pass that provides you with free admission to more than 1,400 of Canada’s cultural attractions and discounts on travel.

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X0EXD TIL only one spacecraft has ever entered orbit around two separate extraterrestrial objects. The Dawn mission entered the orbit of Vesta, the second-largest asteroid in the asteroid belt, and then left orbit after a year and traveled to Ceres.
JpW1 TIL that when Malcolm McDowell met Gene Kelly at a party several years later, the older star turned and walked away in disgust. Kelly was deeply upset about the way his signature from Singin’ in the Rain (1952) had been portrayed in A Clockwork Orange (1971).
WQv4 TIL only four countries in the world have no law requiring paid maternity leave: they are Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, and the United States
Nn0Q TIL that when the global food price index rises above 210 worldwide riots breakout.
J1LRm TIL on Dec 16, 1962 John Paul Scott escaped Alcatraz and swam to Fort Point beneath the Golden Gate Bridge where he was found hypothermic and exhausted. It is the only verified case of an inmate escaping and reaching shore by swimming. He was then returned to Alcatraz.